1925 RARE Ephemera Shellback Card Equator Summons Happy Hour USS OKLAHOMA BB-37

Description: 1925 RARE Photo and Ephemera Shellback Card Equator Summons Happy Hour USS OKLAHOMA BB-37 Included in this lot: 1. Subpoena and Summons Extraordinary for PJ Carine to become a Trusty Shellback. The Royal High Court of the Raging Main County of Oklahomaus Vale of Pacificus Domain of Neptunus Rex 6th Day of July 1925 Sailor name: Peter Joseph (P.J.) Carine Pollywog charges: Charge 1 - PJ Carine is a vile land-lubber and pollywog. Charge 2 - Moppery and doppery, attempt to gawk Charge 3 - not knowing how to handle a sqilgee. 2. Certification Card - Ancient Order of the Deep (Ships seal embossed on card) Carine, P.J. Sea-2C was duly initiated into the solemn mysteries of the Ancient Order of the Deep having crossed the equator onboard the USS Oklahoma bound southward from Honolulu T.H. to Melbourne, Australia on 6 July 1925 3. Crossing the Line Shellback Happy Hour Program USS Oklahoma BB-37 (Glued to photo album sleeve page) Enroute Melbourne Australia Captain William McDowell Chief Judge 4 July 1925 - Selection by the Band - Greased Pole - Shoe Race - Selection by the Band - Potato Race - Three-Legged Race - Spar Boxing - Tug of War - Coin Hunting Contest USS OKLAHOMA joined the Pacific Fleet and, in 1925, began a high-profile training cruise with several other battleships. They left San Francisco on 15 April 1925, arrived in Hawaii, on 27 April, where they conducted war games. They left for Samoa, on 1 July, crossing the equator on 6 July. On 27 July, they arrived in Australia and conducted a number of exercises there, before spending time in New Zealand, returning to the United States later that year. In early 1927, she transited the Panama Canal and moved to join the Scouting Fleet. USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six, protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic. After the war, she served in both the United States Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet. Oklahoma was modernized between 1927 and 1929. In 1936, she rescued American citizens and refugees from the Spanish Civil War. On returning to the West Coast in August of the same year, Oklahoma spent the rest of her service in the Pacific. On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several torpedoes from torpedo bombers hit the Oklahoma's hull and the ship capsized. A total of 429 crew died; survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet (15 m) into burning oil on water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped when rescuers drilled holes and opened hatches to rescue them. The ship was salvaged in 1943. Unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay in 1

Price: 100 USD

Location: La Grange, Texas

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